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Pressure has to be your best friend. If it is, you’ll deliver at crunch time.
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“Rick is the best developmental coach in the past 30 years…
second to none.”
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| When you take a lesson with Rick, you are surrounded by the power of “positive thinking” that fuels the technical development of molding a tennis champion. Rick’s tennis court has an assembly of his often used instructional “SAYINGS” that have come to be called … MACCISMS! |
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- Laziness is the X factor that destroys talent.
- A bad temper is a real key to failure.
- Practice more than anybody in the world. Now that is dedication.
- Having the ability to forget is the real key to staying positive.
- The ball is only as low as you make it.
- Use your legs to hit shots not your hands.
- Everyday make today better than yesterday, if you can remember that today.
- Truly love + enjoy + want pressure.
- Believing is magic.
- Greatness – It is the most unique and different quality in life ….So is thinking different.
- What is Good? What is Great? Good and Great is compared to who?
- Confidence is the most powerful weapon. Make sure it’s your best friend ever.
- Show me a player who hits the big shot when it counts and I’ll show you courage.
- It’s not how much you know. It’s what you don’t know and want to know.
- Everybody isn’t a winner, but everybody can be a winner.
- Show me a player with incredible balance and you’re in the right sport.
- It’s OK to get knocked down. What happens next says it all.
- If you dig deep, you might find oil, but most of all you’ll find success.
- If you stay in the box, you can’t think out of the box.
- Believing is so, so powerful – so is doubt. Now you choose.
- Everything starts with attitude – So why be negative?
- If you want to be a true champion, start changing your attitude today.
- Calmness and Intensity are the ultimate combination in competition.
- Believing leads to achieving.
- Tennis is a game. Games are fun! Enjoy the battle.
- If you believe you will achieve.
- You play with your skill, but you really win with your will.
- If you always play nervous just buy a ticket and just watch.
- It is OK to be nervous just don’t ever, ever, be afraid.
- Negative people get negative results.
- A bad attitude is a real key to failure.
- The mind is either for you or against you.
- Little Steps = Big Results
- Sweat, Pain, Determination – That’s a start.
- Good is Pretty Good, Greatness is the goal.
- No fear – A big key to greatness.
- To achieve greatness – It starts with responsibility.
- Mental toughness is hitting 3 double faults in a row, then hitting an ace.
- It’s better to ask the coach a lot of questions, then to have all the answers.
- If you love, just love to compete, you’re a real competitor.
- Some players see the clouds and storms of the match. Champions see the sun peeking through.
- If you think someone is unbeatable, they have just become even better.
- Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong – Who is next?
- If you don’t love to run, please take up golf.
- If your opponent’s serve is really fast, slow it down in your mind.
- All greatness has to come from you and you alone.
- If you did a good job, that is a big difference than a great job.
- Attack the 2nd serve. If you really, really have courage.
- If you stay after practice and hit serves, your mind gets better than your serve.
- There is not a wrong way or right way. There is a better way.
- If you’re afraid to volley, please take up checkers or something.
- If you reach for the stars, you just might become one.
- Players who quit are getting better at quitting.
- Players who say “I can’t” – Won’t
- Always be ready, then you don’t have to get ready.
- A positive attitude is more positive than any stroke.
- You control the situation, don’t let the situation control you.
- It’s easy to be a pro. To make a great living as a pro – That’s a different goal.
- Believe and act, it is impossible to fail.
- Attitude – A positive one is the platform for success.
- The past is the past. Today is the day.
- Step up or step out, or get stepped on.
- Flash sells tickets – substance wins matches.
- No excuses, ever, ever, ever.
- The fences are out – Run.
- If you ever want to play up to your ability, let it happen.
- Try not to try – so relax.
- Players with great attitudes don’t lose, they learn.
- If your feet are always moving, you’re in the right sport.
- Anybody can come close. Closing on anybody is closure.
- A brain, heart, and courage – You don’t need to see the Wizard to develop these.
- Winners find a way, losers find an excuse.
- You might win the battle, but lose the war. Think bigger.
- The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is a little extra.
- I will never, never be broken down by anybody – Never Ever.
- Thing Big – Be Big.
- If you Believe it, Feel it, See it, Smell it – It will happen.
- I have no doubt that I will reach my goal – No doubt.
- If you refuse to accept anything but your best – You very often get it.
- Rule #1 – Run for every ball….Rule #2 – See Rule #1.
- A smart coach or player is smart because he knows he’s not that smart.
- Dreams do come true, but so do nightmares. So hit the ball.
- Tennis is a game of inches from one ear to the other.
- A true winner refuses to be denied – That is Attitude.
- Love the battle. That is a real competitor.
- You only have control over right now.
- The strong get stronger and the weak get weaker.
- If you run for every ball – You’re sending a message.
- Well done is better than well said.
- Fear is an illusion.
- Play the ball – don’t let it play you.
- Winners find a way.
- If someone says you can’t do it – It is so fulfilling to prove them wrong.
- Play every ball.
- Hit out, Hit out, Hit out and it will go in, in, in.
- Believing is magic.
- The blame game is a game all losers play. Just compete and shut up.
- Attitude can and will determine altitude.
- If you love to run, you’ll run into greatness.
- Just get the ball and keep your mouth shut.
- It is easy to get really upset, so stay positive to avoid the real upset.
- Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler.
- Pressure – Make it your best friend ever.
- Everyday you build positive or negative blocks. Get rid of the negative if you want greatness.
- The toughest game is the mind game – It is you against you. Good Luck.
- Excuses are OK if OK is the goal.
- The mind is the ultimate weapon – Make sure you don’t use it on yourself.
- If you have an unreal work ethic, that is only a start.
- I like the inside out forehand, I like what is inside better.
- If you think different – that’s a start to success.
- If you hate to lose, I mean really hate to lose – Now you’re a real competitor.
- You control the situation. Don’t let the situation control you.
- Would have, should have, could have – Please just get the job done.
- It shows what you are really made of when you lose.
- Intensity – You can feel it through the net.
- It is the quality of the consistency not just being consistent.
- Let it happen – Not make it happen.
- One athlete with courage makes a majority.
- Breathe out when you hit and you’ll be a breath of fresh air.
- Be positive and confident when the world is against you. Not just when it’s for your.
- Step up or get Stepped on.
- Turn your shoulders first, and you'll be first.
- Players who develop – Develop.
- The mind is never neutral – It’s either for you or against you.
- Hit the right shot from the right spot.
- Picture it in your mind before it happens.
- Show me a player with unreal persistence – I’ll show you a real competitor.
- If you think your opponent is great – You have no chance to beat him. Please don’t fear him.
- When you’re so tired that you can’t go any further, you may be in the round of 16.
- If you reach the mountaintop find a new one. Two are better than one.
- A powerful serve is a real weapon but the real weapon is your mind.
- If you play “out” balls, the ones “in” are a piece of cake.
- The best players have the best attitudes.
- If you keep pushing the ball – You’ll be a great 12 and under player. Hit the ball.
- If you play the ball, it doesn’t matter who is across the net.
- You’ve got to remember, but you also have to forget.
- Nothing comes from nothing.
- It is you against you. That is your toughest match ever.
- A good coach improves your game, a great one improves your life.
- Fear is crippling, build courage and belief – Monday through Sunday. No fear.
- When the world is against you – This is when greatness is discovered.
- To get the real edge – Practice on your day off.
- Life and tennis are like a boomerang. …Things just jump back at you.
- Feel like you are in a bubble and before you know it the match is over.
- Short little steps mean big strides to being in position.
- If there is no risk – There are no titles.
- Someday, somewhere, somebody will get your shot so think bigger.
- Players who say I can’t – See what they want to see.
- It’s mind over matter. If it matters to you how the mind works.
- It is easy to be good when things are good. I want you to be good when things are bad.
- It’s OK to follow the leader unless you want to be the leader.
- Persistence is the real X factor.
- Don’t get mad, get mad determined.
- Obstacles are those scary things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- He who hesitates loses.
- Don’t wait – Go get it.
- Winners expect to win in advance.
- Goals are great to have – If great is the goal.
- Being ready is being ready before you should be ready.
- Show me a player who loves to compete on every point, and I’ll show you the definition of a competitor.
- If you never make excuses, your mind will grow stronger.
- When the world is against you – This is when greatness or failure is discovered.
- To get the real edge – Practice sometimes on your day off.
- Real determination is running over broken glass to get a ball.
- Real, real determination is running over broken glass to get a ball, then back over it to recover.
- What you think of yourself is more important than what your opponent thinks.
- Train your mind every day to be positive.
- If you make a mistake and don’t correct it – You just made another one.
- If you want a lot of trophies you can buy them. The feeling of victory is the real trophy.
- If you think something is impossible, it is for you.
- See it, feel it, smell it, touch it, do it.
- When the going gets tough, you should have been tougher earlier.
- When the going gets tough, it’s tough to get going, if you’re weak mentally.
- If every day you try to be better than the day before, you’re better off than the day before.
- There is a huge difference between a great hitter and a great player.
- Show me a player who does 100% everything like Pete Sampras, and I’ll show you Pete Sampras.
- Your mind is more powerful than any nuclear weapon because a mind built the weapon.
- There is a big difference between inspiration and desperation.
- No real pain, no blood stain.
- Players that make excuse are like the Number One, they always have one.
- It is a great sign if you read a great sign.
- If you wake up every morning, that alone should make you feel great.Day in and day out, you send a message about you to others and most of all to yourself. Stay positive.
- If you reach for the SKY, you can’t reach it but it’s not out of reach.
- Some people look at the exact same thing and see the exact opposite. See what I mean?
- It isn’t hard to figure out why things get harder if you are hard headed.
- Some coaches stress a deep knee bend, I prefer a deep breath.
- Failure is really the one opportunity to plug in more intelligently.
- Getting tired is the worst excuse. Get your butt in shape.
- When your opponent is stretching, you’re fetching.
- If you ever really accept losing don’t enter, so you’ll stay tied for last.
- Second is unacceptable in tennis to a real champion.
- Concentration is having the maintenance man blowing off the sidewalks and you didn’t hear him.
- Tennis is like boxing, except you have a racquet instead of a glove, so be ready to move!
- You need to build a foundation, if not the house falls down.
- Pressure has to be your best friend. If it is, you’ll deliver at crunch time.
- What you may see, is different than Rick MACCI.
- Hit and react, it is spelled HITREACT at The Macci Academy.
- If you fail to prepare, you’re preparing to fail.
- If you do your homework, you have less work to do at home.
- Early preparation is the key. If you prepare, start to prepare early.
- If you give 100% on every point you’re kidding yourself, you can do better.
- Tennis is a game of time. It is either for you or against you.
- If you’re 100% ready to play, you’ll play 100% ready.
- If you quit, you get better at quitting.
- If you’re lazy, you get better at getting lazy.
- If you keep making excuses, you get better at making excuses.
- If you’re always negative, you get better at being negative.
- If you keep getting mad, you get better at getting mad.
- If you don’t run, you get better at not running.
- If you stand, you get better at standing.
- If you don’t bend, you get better at not bending.
- If you don’t adjust your foot, you get better at not adjusting.
- If you read this sign, you get better at reading this sign.
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“Rick Macci is all substance.
Most academies and high profile coaches are marketing machines…
with Rick you get the steak and the sizzle.”
- London Journal |
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